Logistics is an important part of carton factory management. Only BY doing a good job in the management of material procurement and circulation, effectively controlling the inventory of materials, formulating the material consumption quota scientifically, and organizing the transportation and storage of goods reasonably, can enterprises improve their economic benefits and enhance their market competitiveness. In general, we can reduce the logistics cost in the following ways!
- Reduce logistics costs through the reasonable design of the production process
A company is a comprehensive color printing factory that produces cartons, color boxes, trademarks, books, and periodicals. The logistics cost of the production process involves a wide range of areas. The scientific and reasonable design of the production process is an important way to reduce the logistics cost of the production operation process. Given the production process of the logistics cost, including raw materials, scraps, semi-finished products, and finished products in circulation and storage, the production process, and the design of the workshop layout, must accord with the requirement of cardboard-box factory assembly line production operation characteristic, make fluctuation process of raw materials, scraps, semi-products, and finished products to achieve the most convenient and most short flow. Considering the printing, processing, and production of color box products, the main characteristics are base paper, semi-finished products, finished products occupying a large area, heavy materials, large production quantity, and also need to cut paper, glazing, film covering, bronzing, die cutting and other supporting production processes, therefore, Plant layout design should consider printing and base paper warehouse, paper cutting, glazing, pressing, film covering, bronzing, die-cutting and other back processing equipment, in the form of assembly line arrangement, to reduce the production process of material flow required labor and transportation costs.
- Reduce logistics costs through purchasing control
The procurement control of raw materials is also an important link to reducing logistics costs. It is a very important control measure to select appropriate suppliers, conduct bidding, inspection and control of purchased raw materials, grasp the market of raw materials, and control the appropriate inventory. Because of different suppliers due to the production process, scale, management style, and geographical differences, such as the price of raw materials, the quality will be different, therefore, the enterprise to make the necessary market investigation and research, by way of bidding, the choice can be door-to-door delivery and reliable quality, suitable price, timely delivery of suppliers, to reduce the cost of raw material logistics. The factory shall establish the acceptance system of raw materials into the warehouse, and carry out random or full inspections (a small number of cases) of raw materials in the warehouse to ensure the quality of raw materials purchased.
- Reduce logistics costs through warehouse management
The warehouse management of the carton factory is also related to the logistics cost. Some factories lack detailed management means for the import and export of raw materials and blindly stock raw materials, which not only affects the flexible turnover of funds but also increases the logistics cost. Doing warehouse management is very important, therefore, the factory to match work a strong sense of responsibility, have certain warehouse management experience as a house, formulate a management appraisal system, make warehouse management standardization, material, quantity, grade, into the library time identify, neatly stacked raw material classification, stacked position to facilitate transport, Avoid logistics error and damage caused by human factors. The storage management of the factory shall establish detailed raw material entry and exit accounts, to make the quantity, specification, use, and inventory number of materials clear, and maximize the reduction of logistics costs.
In addition, the warehouse management personnel are required to strengthen close contact with the production workshop, cooperate closely with each other, track and manage the materials used in the workshop frequently, and give timely feedback when problems are found.
Four, the use of an information management system to reduce logistics costs
Information technology management is the main way of modern enterprise management, modern advanced logistics concepts, logistics technology, information system, and logistics management modes, will be an important way to improve the level of enterprise logistics management. The modern enterprise carries on the logistics management with the help of the information management system, realizes the optimal control to the logistics, is the artificial management difficult to achieve the effect. Therefore, the selection of management system should set production operation, material flow, and financial settlement as one of the production management information systems, its basic functions cover customer information collection, production orders, material distribution, production progress tracking, product sales, financial settlement, cost analysis, production scheduling, logistics information online reflection.
The system should also contain a material table, material structure table, procurement statistics table, storage report, sales statistics table, warehouse report, customer information, production sheet, etc., which can be queried or printed at any time all kinds of reports, avoid manual statistics tedious and labor, improve the quality and efficiency of logistics management.
Fifth, the use of external cooperation to reduce logistics costs
To REDUCE the logistics cost, it is necessary to strengthen the economic accounting of goods transportation, analyze the material flow and characteristics of the factory, make a careful calculation, and reasonably determine the plan of outsourcing to complete the delivery. Now transportation is developed, the competition is more severe, the use of third-party logistics reduces the cardboard-box factory has a great economic advantage, the logistics cost of the production and operation of the enterprise can according to their situation and market trend, with large logistics and hauling goods, can consider to choose appropriate transportation outsourcing units, bidding way consideration for logistics, quality and cost are good.
- Reduce logistics costs through appropriate packaging
Carton, color box products as a commodity packaging, to keep the product intact, clean, and sanitary is crucial, is also the end user’s greatest desire. Because the products are easily affected by shock, bumps, and friction during transportation, if there is no proper packaging technology and measures, the damage and dirt of the products will certainly affect the reputation of the factory, and will also cause economic losses. Therefore, according to the characteristics of the product and transportation characteristics of appropriate packaging, to achieve maximum protection of the product, convenient handling, and transportation, promote product sales. For industrial products, product color box, according to the quality of the product class, the mode of transportation, transportation distance, road characteristics, take into consideration the outside wrapping paper use kraft paper, base paper, printing semi-finished products or waste carton packaging, make the product packaging protective, applicability and economy are both, better reduce the logistics cost.
- Reduce logistics costs by reducing personnel and optimizing organizations
The management organization AND human resources are the CONSTITUENT factors of the logistics cost of the carton factory. It is of great significance to set up the logistics management organization and personnel reasonably according to the situation of the enterprise and reduce the level of the logistics, improve the efficiency and quality of the factory, and reduce the logistics cost. Therefore, according to the production scale of the factory and the characteristics of human resources, streamlining logistics management institutions, and reducing management levels and personnel Settings, there are certain management advantages. If the factory needs to set up more than one deputy, must be clear about the division of labor, and develop an effective assessment system, to better improve the quality of management, and reduce logistics costs.
Changes along with the development of the market, the enterprise the sublimation of management concept, the transition of the production and business operation mode, modern logistics is not a simple goods transport, but a management technology and management to promote efficiency, to reduce logistics cost, using the scientific management of production and business operation is a cardboard-box factory and was one of the important content, which requires the logistics of factory macroscopic planning and design, Make the factory logistics management more suitable for their production characteristics of the scientific control mode. We should use modern management technology and information technology to continuously innovate and develop logistics management, so that modern logistics management technology can lay a solid foundation for enterprises to achieve long-term and stable development. Therefore, only to establish a virtuous cycle of logistics management order, pay attention to the scientific management and control of production logistics, and take it as an important means for enterprises to tap the potential, improve economic benefits, and develop the third profit of enterprises, which is also the management direction of the carton factory to achieve a virtuous cycle of production and management.